Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-05-08

menfs and the Hudson Bay Company
ose1pancy were two principles which
co1ld no1 harmooiss. Ths former d.
pended fer its success npon the recoa-
niliOn of mans Individuality, whilst
the discipline Of organised monopoly
Was TIE thraldom of the individual %
iis behesks. The one d vitality Of pro-
Rfees. the other mere inanity. Both
cannot survtve." It IL noW admitted
that the ooc1pancy ef q coantry by such
N organization as the Hadson BAy
Company cannot be promotiva Of free
settlement and coloainAfion. In the
foregoing assail Of events Il cannot e.
cape notice that ~ the 'sxeitemenin
progressed. the company were deprived
OF any exolusiveness Of privilege 10
trades thaa Il was put under the
ban Of Government. and its able ehiaf
oempelled 20 renounes all connection
With Il before be could Be entFuseed
with the administration of the civil
Rovernment. Strongly. too. was marked
lhe opinion OF the eminent Colonial
Secretary. that what might subssEve the
Interests Of The Hudson Bay coupany,
vas tnimical 10 The true purposea OF
eorernmeat and 10 thai security of the
immunilies due 20 the settler. More
A@-4A~e NNEt&A3 uAANM NAAA N2LA kMNll4 IANAAA~
pany, ence exercising more than Impe-
rial power in 8 Vaas portion Of the North
American Continent, never recovered
from the ordeal 10 Vhioh Il vas sub
iscted In 1858. bas Il vas therefore a.
vested of ell territorial charaotsFistica
and proprietaFy powers; thereafter Il
was confined 10 the enioyment Of the
profits Of legitimate trade, a mere eom-
neroiA association. Thia Aexcitement"
marks the era when that transition
commenced. II Of itself a did not con-
ntoufs 10 or hasten the downfall ef this
vast controlling power; that faoa alone
invests Cur subject with all peTvadinG
interest.
rTs PRKKArNKNr RENKFTr TO N0RTRwM8r
AMKRTuA.
The foregoing results seem 10 have
bean consequent upon the Fraser river
exeiiamsnt les preeminent henefa 10
the Pacific slope Il, however, 10 Be
found In ita poWerfnl invocatisu 10 At
tention 10 the great Northwest and its
growing importance. ID attracsed 30
British Columbia and Vancouver Island,
immigrants from OalifoFnia, Oregon,
Washington. the Atlantic States, Can
ada, Europe. Australia. the Sandwich
Islands, and the Celestial Empire. AZ
u subsided, IL left colony In prosper
ous condition 10 whom Il bad contrib
uted q large population. Greater accea-
si0ns 10 the population Of Oregon,
Washington and California we're fur
nished as the excitement expended Ia
force than had been drawn from thoss
places during ita continuance. To lho
latter. also, u afforded q new and vastly
Increased demand for heK staples, and
opened q new and vastly increases feld
for commercial enterprise. To Oregon
and Washingtsn, the same benefits ao-
erued, though necessarily In q less de-
gree. To the whole coast it gave 9 nav
vitality. What an impetus 10 The ad-
vaneement Of the great utilitarian idea
of the ace, transaontinental land oom-
munieationl The States (nO longer
Westerly and even the very con
Canada yearned for con
tinuity with the great Paoino. The
between the two great oceans
lost its ideal sienihoAncs, vhils the
growing importance Of the Pacific
slope commanded the attention Of
the Atlantic States begetting che exer-
cise Of fraternal daty. National ties
we're extended 10 and refrigerated upon
the shores Of the Paeide and the one
uo7o OF our uaalon autoL4iucQs Muuu-
tain chains we're levelled and the dent
zens OF the Pacific alOpe we're again
brought nearer in feeling 10 early homes
and kindred. The conviction OF an
lipodal distance, the result Of edaca-
lion, was removed. Less than ten years
before, California had inspired the
thought that the Pacific vas much
nearer what We still call hoNs than our
generation had learned at school. Tha
Fraser river excitement followed. ap-
west 10 east. In this an
nihilatioa Of ideal remoteness, In this
realization Of oAsnen Of country, In
he triumphant assurance thai the
Pacific is 10 become the center Of
American commerce and empire, the
poets prophecy has passed int0 history.
The star Of empire has found its abiding
place on the shores Of the Pacific oR the
Western Ocean. AZ dreamt Of Ia
BeFkely's philosophy already the new
mission is entered upon Of renewing
he old East with the light Of our west
,rn civilization.